HEALDSBURG − Host, Sarah Rutan: A septic system may be easy to ignore, but neglecting maintenance can result in adverse and expensive consequences. To learn more, we’re here in Healdsburg with Eric Hawley, vice president of Environmental Pump Services, speaking on behalf of Diamond Expert Contributor Blaine Cristando.

Eric Hawley, vice president of Environmental Pump Services, Inc.: With residential septic, proper maintenance is going to keep you from having long-term, very costly repairs such as complete leach line, or if you have a mount system, failure. The longer you let the tank go, the more sludge and biomat you end up out in the field – and it completely plugs it and will shut it down. So proper maintenance will avoid that situation. So just a little bit of maintenance, saves a lot of money in the long run.

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